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The death toll from a suicide blast targeting a passenger train in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province has risen to 47, including 20 soldiers, while 98 others were injured, Xinhua news agency reported citing rescue officials.The bomb blast hit a shuttle train carrying Pakistani security personnel and their families in the southwestern province of Balochistan on Sunday.The earlier reported death toll was at least 24, with around 70 people injured.The separatist militant group Baloch Liberation Army, or BLA, said in a statement to media that it carried out the attack and described it as a suicide bombing.Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned what he called a "heinous bomb explosion" in a post on social media website X. ​He expressed condolences for the victims' families and said the nation stood ​with the ⁠people of Balochistan.